"There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised."
Ahh, my man Gil, who coined the phrase.
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Gil Scott-Heron
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
Synchronicity Clown...it's everywhere...
If it were televised, no one would believe it, or take it seriously.
But pro-wrestling--that's real.
anything with mean in tights is real... just like peter pan
What revolution are we talking about here?
The meek & the downtrodden workers inheriting the earth - & getting their own back!
Nice to see that Gil Scott-Heron is getting his props here. Good work, gentlemen!
Yeah, I was pretty sure it was a joke when I read "Strung up by your bloated thumbs."
Vive le borg!
hey whos talking about my bloated thumbs? look im retaining a little water... leave me alone ok...
the revolution will not be televised
it will however be the subject of about 1 million blogs
Actually, the revolution may be televized. If Fox can figure out a way to make a buck off it, we can expect to be a reality-TV version of it...
revolutionary idol anyone
castro could be a celebrity judge
each week the contestants would have to stage a coup somewhere
I feel certain that the revolution will be televised. But the revolutionaries will receive very, very bad press from Rupert & co.
The revolution will be televised, but it will be aired at 2 a.m. only in selected markets.
The revolution will be an infomercial.
The favored vehicle in the televised revolution will be the golf cart.
And the televized revolutionaries will be babes of both genders, several of whom will turn out to have been in soft-core porn movies a few years ago....
